Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] leave the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 2 | Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 . |
| 3 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 4 | He expected her to leave the company without questioning his decision , but he was wrong . |
| 5 | Now I thought I left the list in the restaurant because the blokes . |
| 6 | When the young King was dying , probably of tuberculosis , the protector , Northumberland , persuaded him to leave the throne in his Will to his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , Northumberland 's daughter-in-law , instead of to his Catholic half-sister Mary , as prescribed in the Act of Succession of Henry VIII 's reign . |
| 7 | When he died he left the land to the Drapers Company — a charitable institution for residents of East London . |
| 8 | The Council did not discuss the morality of methods of contraception because Pope Paul asked it to leave the matter to his own special commission . |
| 9 | Why did you er did you leave the business in the end ? |
| 10 | Or did he leave the court without speaking ? ’ |
| 11 | After all , he did lie ; the Chief Justice said he left the house about curfew but Sir Richard claims it was much later . ’ |